Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Any place I hang my head is home.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.