The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

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

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.