Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
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.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.