You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

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There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time

While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.