Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

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

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.