It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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.

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

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

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.

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

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

It takes a long time to grow young.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Time is the best killer.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?