Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

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.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.