The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

The future is the shape of things to come.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

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.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.