Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Live your life and forget your age.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Time is the best killer.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

All of us are products of our childhood.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.