In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
