We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

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

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

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

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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

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

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy