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

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

History is the devil's scripture.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

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.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.