Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Live to the point of tears.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Time is the best killer.