Theories have nothing to do with life.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

If you have a fight work it out, don't get out

Self confidence is the greatest courage for any success.

I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps.

Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.