I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

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

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.