If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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.

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Pain don't hurt.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.