It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

It takes a long time to grow young.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

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

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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

Life must be lived as play.

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

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.