“Hope is a waking dream.”

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.

What perishes is time; we are eternal.

I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

This world of dew is a world of dew — and yet, and yet...

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

In the cicada's cry no sign can foretell how soon it must die.