As for worrying about what other people might think, forget it. They aren’t concerned about you. They’re too busy worrying about what you and other people think of them.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

“Careful with fire” is good advice we know. “Careful with words” is ten times doubly so.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Life gives you a comb after you lose your hair.

I’m going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

To obtain a man’s opinion of you, make him mad.

In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Begin at the beginning, and go on until you come to the end; then stop.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it’s dearness only that gives everything its value.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.

Don’t try to win a friend by presenting gifts.

The more you experience and appreciate the goodness of life, the more there is to be lived.

What greater blessing than to be with those you love, and to feel that every heart beats in harmony.

Love is a choice. It is a conscious commitment. It is something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing.

Not I - not anyone else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

The most wasted of days is one without laughter.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Health is the pillar of the soul and an important foundation.

Destiny is like a dust storm; you have nowhere to hide.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

If you can feel pain, you are alive; if you can feel the pain of others, you are human.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The dignity and glory of the person lies not in sophistication but in honesty.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

You will never have what you like until you learn to like what you have.

It is in our faults and mistakes, not in our virtues, that we touch each other and find resonance. Our essence lies in our absurdities.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Every snowflake is a masterpiece of patience.

Courage is grace under pressure.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

You run from one place to another, but you are still you. You can’t escape from your body.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things… It doesn’t frighten me.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

We can never know things as they are in themselves, only as they appear to us.

We are all like the bright moon; we still have our darker side.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

We may give advice, but we can’t give conduct.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.