Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

Life should be great rather than long.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Live simply so others may simply live.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Live your life and forget your age.