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.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
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.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.