Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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.

Time is the best killer.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them