You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Certain signs precede certain events.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

We all owe death a life.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Life must be lived as play.

What goes up must come down.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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

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