My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
It takes a long time to grow young.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
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.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.