The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

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

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.