Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
