We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
If I get married, I want to be very married.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
