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?

In the end, everything is a gag.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Pain don't hurt.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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!

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

We think too much and feel too little.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

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.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.