Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

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.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

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

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

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

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

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.