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

Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

We all need each other.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness, and even death.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

Perfect love is rare indeed.

Love yourself- accept yourself- forgive yourself and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

We never lose the people we love, even to death.

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.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.