The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
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.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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.
