The future is the shape of things to come.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
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.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
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
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
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.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.