My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

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

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

What goes up must come down.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

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

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.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.