If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

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

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.