We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

My art and profession is to live.

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

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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

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

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

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.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.