Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

It takes a long time to grow young.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

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

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

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.