Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Live your life and forget your age.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.
