Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

... then the world 's mine oyster.

Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

Some people think holding on makes them strong, sometimes its letting go.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

What silly people wits are!

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

it wasn't the caughing that carried him off, it was the coffin they carried him off in.