After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, read more

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as read more

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at read more

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.