The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Where there is love there is life.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Pain don't hurt.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

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

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.