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.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
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.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Life must be lived as play.
Nature is not human-hearted.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Where there is love there is life.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
