Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

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.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

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

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.