The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

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

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.