Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Everything hinges on how you look at things

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

When you can't create you can work

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.