Any place I hang my head is home.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

The less you know, the more you believe.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.