We think too much and feel too little.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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

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

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

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

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

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.

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

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.