Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

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

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I am not young enough to know everything.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.