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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

All of us are products of our childhood.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.