I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

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.

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

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

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

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

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

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