The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.