Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

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

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

What goes up must come down.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.