Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
I am not young enough to know everything.
