To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

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.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams