Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

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

Where there is love there is life.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.