Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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

The past is the best prophet of the future.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

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.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.