Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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