To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
It takes a long time to grow young.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
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.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
