Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Time is the best killer.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
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.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
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.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Live your life and forget your age.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
