Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
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.
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
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
It takes a long time to grow young.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.