If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Where there is love there is life.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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.

The less you know, the more you believe.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.