The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

We all owe death a life.

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

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.