Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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.

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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.