Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
Where there is love there is life.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
History is the devil's scripture.
History has shown there are no invincible armies.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
