Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
