"My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day"

"The tiger is a magnificent creature and one that is threatened by human activities on all fronts. It is up to us to protect this iconic species and ensure that it has a future in the wild"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

"Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about"

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature"

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"The best way to predict the future is to create it"