He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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.
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Pain don't hurt.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
