There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

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

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Let silence take you to the core of life.