Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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

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

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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

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

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.