It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
