Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

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.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.