Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

We think too much and feel too little.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

We all owe death a life.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.