A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
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.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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.
