Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

There's place and means for every man alive.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.