To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.