The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Time is the best killer.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

My art and profession is to live.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.