Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
No dog ever peed on a moving car.
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.
If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.
I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.
The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.
I think its the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
Time wounds all heels.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.
