I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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

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

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

We all owe death a life.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Live to the point of tears.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Live your life and forget your age.