Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

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

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

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

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

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.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.