To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
There's place and means for every man alive.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
