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.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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

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.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.