To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Live to the point of tears.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

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

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.