The future is the shape of things to come.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.