Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
We all owe death a life.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.