Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

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.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

We all owe death a life.

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.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.