We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Life must be lived as play.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

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

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

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.