The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
We think too much and feel too little.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
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
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
There's place and means for every man alive.
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.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.