Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

My art and profession is to live.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.