Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

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

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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.

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

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.