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.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

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

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.