Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Certain signs precede certain events.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

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.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.