Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

My art and profession is to live.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.