Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

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

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.