If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
Live your life and forget your age.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.