I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

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.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

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

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

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

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.