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

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.