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

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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

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

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

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.