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.

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

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.