If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
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.
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
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
