The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.