Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

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.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

History is the devil's scripture.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

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

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.