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.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

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

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Nature is not human-hearted.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.