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

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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