One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Time is the best killer.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
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.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Nature is not human-hearted.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
