History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
We all owe death a life.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.