The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Life should be great rather than long.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

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

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.