It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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

We all owe death a life.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

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

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

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

Life should be great rather than long.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.