Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
In the end, everything is a gag.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.