People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Live your life and forget your age.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
