The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
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.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
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.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Any place I hang my head is home.