Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

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.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Live simply so others may simply live.

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.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.