When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.