We think too much and feel too little.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

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

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

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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