I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

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.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Live to the point of tears.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

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