Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

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

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

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.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.