“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”

“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”

“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.”

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“Everything in life is luck.”

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”