It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end nor protects it from the bites of insects.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble there lies your treasure.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul the director of his life.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.