Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Any place I hang my head is home.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.