The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Life is a journey, not a destination.