The more I see, the less I know for sure.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
The less you know, the more you believe.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
love the life you live.live the life you love.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.