You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

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

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.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.