When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

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

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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