If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
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.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Live simply so others may simply live.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
