Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Nature is not human-hearted.
