Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We think too much and feel too little.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

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

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.