The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'