It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

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.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

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

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

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

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.