Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

The future is the shape of things to come.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.