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.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.