Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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.
What goes up must come down.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.