No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.