“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”

Every wall is a door.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don’t ever tell which is which.

Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.