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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

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

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.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life must be lived as play.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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