Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Live your life and forget your age.
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.
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.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Live simply so others may simply live.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
