There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

Any place I hang my head is home.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Life should be great rather than long.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.