Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Without literature, life is hell.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
No one here gets out alive.
Art is the proper task of life.