As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

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

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Live your life and forget your age.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

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

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.