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

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.