If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

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.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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

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

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.