Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
We all owe death a life.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
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.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.