Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

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.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Where there is love there is life.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.