The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Life is too short to work so hard.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.