Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

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

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

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

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.