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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Certain signs precede certain events.

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

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

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

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.