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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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.

History is the devil's scripture.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Life must be lived as play.

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.