One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

We think too much and feel too little.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

The way to know life is to love many things.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.