Live simply so others may simply live.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

History is the devil's scripture.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

What goes up must come down.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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 journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

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.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We think too much and feel too little.