Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

History is the devil's scripture.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Life is a journey, not a destination.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.