When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
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.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
