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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Life should be great rather than long.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

It takes a long time to grow young.