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

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

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

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

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

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.