A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

What goes up must come down.

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.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.