Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

It's never too late for those whose time has come.

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

Ive been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.