How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The future is the shape of things to come.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

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

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

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

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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