Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.