The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
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.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.