We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.

Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.