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

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

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

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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