To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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.

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 let making a living prevent you from making a life.

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

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes