There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

We all owe death a life.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Live to the point of tears.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

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

Sometimes - history needs a push.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.