If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.