Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

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.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

The future is the shape of things to come.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The way to know life is to love many things.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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