A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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.
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.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.