A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

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

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.