A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
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.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Time is the best killer.
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 a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
