Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!
It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.
Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.
I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!