If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

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

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.