I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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.

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.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

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

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Any place I hang my head is home.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.