Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
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.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
Pain don't hurt.
The way to know life is to love many things.
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.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
