Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Live to the point of tears.
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.
Where there is love there is life.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
