Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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

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

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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

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

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.