Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.