I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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.
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.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
