A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

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

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

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

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

We think too much and feel too little.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.