Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

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

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

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

Life should be great rather than long.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.