A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

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.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

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.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.