Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
