Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
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.
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.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.