Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I restore myself when I'm alone.