There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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.
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.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
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
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
Any place I hang my head is home.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
