Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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.

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

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Pain don't hurt.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.