The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
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.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
