I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

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

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.