To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

You have been my friend... And that in itself is a tremendous thing.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last

Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.