Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

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

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Live your life and forget your age.

Certain signs precede certain events.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.