The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

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.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.