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 more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
