To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

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

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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

We all owe death a life.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.