A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

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

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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

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.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.