The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

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

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Certain signs precede certain events.

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.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.