The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Any place I hang my head is home.

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

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

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

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.