Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Life must be lived as play.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

What goes up must come down.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.