The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
History has shown there are no invincible armies.
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
My art and profession is to live.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.