You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
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.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
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.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
