The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
There's place and means for every man alive.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
