Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
