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

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

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.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

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

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

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

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.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.