Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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.'
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.