The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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.

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

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

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

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.