Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contains multitudes).

A person should so live that their happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize that nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity. Shrink from them and your life will be small, feel the fear and run to them anyway, and you life will be big. Life's just too short to play little.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

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