Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Certain signs precede certain events.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.