Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

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

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.