I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

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.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.