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

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

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

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

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

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

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

History is the devil's scripture.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

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

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.