Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

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.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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