Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

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

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner 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.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

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

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

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

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.