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.'

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Certain signs precede certain events.

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

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

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

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

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.