Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.