If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create 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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
The way to know life is to love many things.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes