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.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

In the end, everything is a gag.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

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

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.