Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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

The past is the best prophet of the future.

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

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Any place I hang my head is home.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

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.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them