"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."

"Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness."

"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure."

"You can't live principals you can't understand."

"No man loves life like him that's growing old"

"Better not to exist than live basely."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds."

"It is best to live however one can be."

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

"Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die."

"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."

"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money."

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

"It is important to me to instill in [kids] a sense of compassion and respect for others."

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."