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

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

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

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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

The past is the best prophet of the future.

In the end, everything is a gag.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Certain signs precede certain events.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference