Live simply so others may simply live.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
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.
