Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

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

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

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