Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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

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

All of us are products of our childhood.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

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 present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.