Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

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

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

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

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.