Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

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

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

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.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

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

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.