The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Diamonds are a girls best friend.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
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.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
