They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.