Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
My art and profession is to live.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
