Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..

No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

If you wish to find yourself, you must first admit you are lost.