Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
We think too much and feel too little.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Where there is love there is life.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
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.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
The less you know, the more you believe.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
