You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.
Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.
Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.