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.

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.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

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.

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

There's place and means for every man alive.

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

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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