Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

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

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

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

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.