When you embark for strange places dont leave any of yourself safely at the shore Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, take the calculated risk, and take action!
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.
As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
