If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Live simply so others may simply live.

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

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

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 would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.