If we are not free, no one will respect us.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
The way to know life is to love many things.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
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.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
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.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
