Old age is by nature rather talkative.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

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

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.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.