Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
