Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy