Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
The less you know, the more you believe.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
It takes a long time to grow young.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
Live simply so others may simply live.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
