Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Any place I hang my head is home.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

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

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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

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

The less you know, the more you believe.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.