I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
The way to know life is to love many things.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
The less you know, the more you believe.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
