It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

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.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.