Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.