The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Any place I hang my head is home.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

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.