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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

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

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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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 a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.