No one has ever become poor by giving.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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 must be lived as play.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

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

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.