It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

What goes up must come down.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.