I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.”

“My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.”

“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”

“So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”

“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”

“Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.”

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”

“It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me… if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…”

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

“I am only one, but still I am one.I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”