“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.”

“May you live all the days of your life.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”

“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”

“Life is never easy for those who dream.”

“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”