Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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

My art and profession is to live.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The less you know, the more you believe.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Pain don't hurt.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.