Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
