When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.