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

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.