Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

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

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Live to the point of tears.