Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.