What we live by we die by.

A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Nature is man's inorganic body - that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature - i.e., nature is his body - and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.