If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.
The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.
If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle, it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.