Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

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

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 always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.