To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
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.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them
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?
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
