My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
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
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
Life should be great rather than long.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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.
We think too much and feel too little.
