All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

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

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Life must be lived as play.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The less you know, the more you believe.