The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Nature is not human-hearted.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
