Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
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.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.