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.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
