There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Any place I hang my head is home.