We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

We think too much and feel too little.