The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
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.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
