Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.