My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

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.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

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

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.