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.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

History is the devil's scripture.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.