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

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The future is the shape of things to come.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.