Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Love is the absence of judgment.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.