Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

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.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

We think too much and feel too little.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

The way to know life is to love many things.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

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

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.