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

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

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.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.