Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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

Where there is love there is life.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

I am not young enough to know everything.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

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

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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