If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
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.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
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.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
