Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Any place I hang my head is home.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Life must be lived as play.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

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

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

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.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.