“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

“It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.”

“Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”