One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
I am not young enough to know everything.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.