“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”

“I love life because what more is there?”

“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.”

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

“Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”