When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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

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.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Nature is not human-hearted.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.