Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

Life should be great rather than long.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes