Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
Diamonds are a girls best friend.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.