But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
We can’t learn without pain.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
There is no education like adversity.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Money can’t buy life.
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can’t have both.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Be like water, my friend.
Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.