He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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

The past is the best prophet of the future.

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

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

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Nature is not human-hearted.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Where there is love there is life.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.