Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

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

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.