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.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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

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.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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

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

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

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.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

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

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.