If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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

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

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Nature is not human-hearted.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.