Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
There's place and means for every man alive.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
My art and profession is to live.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
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.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.