The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.