One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

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.

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

We think too much and feel too little.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

I restore myself when I'm alone.