Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
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.
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.