During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
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.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
