The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
love the life you live.live the life you love.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
