History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

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.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

My art and profession is to live.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

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

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.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Let silence take you to the core of life.