If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

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

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.