Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

A life not lived for others is not a 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

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

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

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough