What goes up must come down.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

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

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.