Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.