One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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