To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Live your life and forget your age.

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.