We create our fate every day we live.

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

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

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

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

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

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

I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.

Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.

TDF is more essential today than it was when it was first founded in 1968.

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.