If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
