Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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

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

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

If I get married, I want to be very married.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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

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

Live to the point of tears.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

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

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.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

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.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

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

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.