He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
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.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
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.