Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
