Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The future is the shape of things to come.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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 disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

Certain signs precede certain events.