Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
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.
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.
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
We all owe death a life.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
