Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test? ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.

You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Beats all the lies you can invent.

A truth that's told with bad intent

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The past has no power over the present moment.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?