One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

The way to know life is to love many things.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Where there is love there is life.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.