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 is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
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.
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!
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.