Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
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.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
