One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Pain don't hurt.
