Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
It takes a long time to grow young.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.