Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

There's place and means for every man alive.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

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