The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

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

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

History is the devil's scripture.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

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.