Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. This was on a sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton, which is often quoted as a statement by him; research should be able to reveal whether or not it originated with Einstein.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too. Reply to his friend and contemporary David Hunter-Blair who asked him what his real ambition was, in about 1878.

I am dying as I have lived: beyond my means. Wilde is supposed to have said this on his deathbed, while drinking a glass of champagne.