The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
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.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
