We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
I am not young enough to know everything.
It takes a long time to grow young.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.