Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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

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

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

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

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

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.