Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Only other people can make you feel real.

In your heart you know he's right.

The universe is holding congress with itself.

You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.

You can’t get away from yourself, but you can get yourself out of the way.

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.