Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

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

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.