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

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Time is the best killer.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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