"Only a few things are really important."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"All life is an experiment."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."