If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Pain don't hurt.

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

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

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

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

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.