Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

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.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

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

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.