Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Life should be great rather than long.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?