To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
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.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.