- Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life,is so breathtakingly serious!
- Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible
- To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything
- One man with courage makes a majority
- The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
- If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
- You can learn a little from victory; you can learn everything from defeat.
- The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- A friend in power is a friend lost
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it
- Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new
- The richest peach is highest on the tree
- We live as we dream - alone.