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

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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

Pain don't hurt.

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

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

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.