Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Live your life and forget your age.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

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

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Life must be lived as play.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.