When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life should be great rather than long.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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.

In the end, everything is a gag.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Live simply so others may simply live.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.