I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness