Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
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.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
