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

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

My art and profession is to live.

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

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

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

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Pain don't hurt.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

History is the devil's scripture.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.