You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

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

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

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