Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Common sense is not so common.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.