If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
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.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.