Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.