"Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

"Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful."

"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes and completes them by what is deepest in themselves."

"Maude - 'The earth is my body, my head is in the stars...Who said that?' Harold- 'I don't know.' Maude - 'Well, I suppose I did.'"

"I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous."

"The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of 'civilized warfare.'"

"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."

"No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year."

"America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature."

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."