The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

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

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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.

There's place and means for every man alive.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

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

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

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

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

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.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

History is the devil's scripture.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.