The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.