People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.