Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life must be lived as play.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.