Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

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.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

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

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.