Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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

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

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

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

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

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.