It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

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

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life should be great rather than long.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.