Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
It takes a long time to grow young.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
We think too much and feel too little.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
The future is the shape of things to come.
