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

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.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

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

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

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

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.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

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.

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

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.