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

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.

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

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

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

What goes up must come down.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

We think too much and feel too little.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Live your life and forget your age.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.