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

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

My art and profession is to live.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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

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.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.