Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

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.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

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

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

My art and profession is to live.

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.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The way to know life is to love many things.