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

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

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Live your life and forget your age.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

In the end, everything is a gag.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.