We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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

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

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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

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

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

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.