Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Nature is not human-hearted.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

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

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

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.