Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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