Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

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

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

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

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

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Pain don't hurt.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.