Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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

Any place I hang my head is home.

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.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.