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.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.