Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

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.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.