Let silence take you to the core of life.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

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

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

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

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

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

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

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.