In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

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

The less you know, the more you believe.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Live your life and forget your age.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

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

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.