Sometimes - history needs a push.

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.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

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.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

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

Nature is not human-hearted.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.