What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

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.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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

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

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

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

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.