I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Never ever regret anything in life that made you smile in your past

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

I would never, ever do anything as vulgar as having fun.

I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.