All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Pain don't hurt.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

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.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn