“I’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.”

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.

L.O.V.E. Such a good word. Such a limitless word. Such a limitless concept.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

If you don’t like the scene you’re in, if you’re unhappy, if you’re lonely, if you don’t feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

To love others you must first love yourself.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.

Living, loving & learning.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

There is nothing that is an accident.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.

The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.