All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
Let silence take you to the core of life.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.