Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

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.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

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

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

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.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

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

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.