If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.