The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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