A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.