Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

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.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

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

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.