The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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

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

We all owe death a life.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.