Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

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

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.

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

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

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.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

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

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone.