The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I am not young enough to know everything.

What goes up must come down.

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

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

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.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Live simply so others may simply live.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

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

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