The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

What goes up must come down.

In the end, everything is a gag.