The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

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.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

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