If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

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.

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

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel 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.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.