Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

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

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

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

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.