To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

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

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

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

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.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.