Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
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
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
We think too much and feel too little.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
