The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
