The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

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.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

All of us are products of our childhood.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.