This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.