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

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Nature is not human-hearted.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.