Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

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

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.