Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

love the life you live.live the life you love.