The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the read more

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed read more

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is read more

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are read more

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in read more

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.