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.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
There's place and means for every man alive.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.