Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

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.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

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

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.