Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.