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

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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

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.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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

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

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.