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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The way to know life is to love many things.