When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
The future is the shape of things to come.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
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.
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
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
