No one has ever become poor by giving.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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.

It takes a long time to grow young.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.