Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

History is the devil's scripture.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.