Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.