To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

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

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Where there is love there is life.

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.

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

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

My art and profession is to live.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.