The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.