To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

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

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air