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

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.