We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Live simply so others may simply live.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

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.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation