Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
