Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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 is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
