Sometimes - history needs a push.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
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.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'