Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Certain signs precede certain events.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
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.