There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Where there is love there is life.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
