Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
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
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
There's place and means for every man alive.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
