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

We all owe death a life.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

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

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.