The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

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

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.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Time is the best killer.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.