Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
