History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

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

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

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

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

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

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.