A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Life must be lived as play.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
