Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

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.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Time is the best killer.

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

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

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Live simply so others may simply live.