The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

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.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Pain don't hurt.

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!

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.