Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

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

In the end, everything is a gag.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

love the life you live.live the life you love.