Make your life a work of art.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Science at its highest level is ultimately the organization of, the systematic pursuit of, and the enjoyment of wonder, awe and mystery.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty and truth.

There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is; I've always been a fool.

It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

A library is a hospital for the mind.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The life of an individual is almost always tragic, but gone through in detail it has the characteristics of a comedy.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The truth is everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

My purpose, practically speaking: a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

The price of happiness is bondage, the price of freedom is loneliness.

God is man's greatest idea.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

That which you most need will be found where you least want to look.

The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.

Without mistakes there would be no truth. If a man does not know what a thing is, at least he knows what it is not.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

We must be engaged in the cultural battles—even when we grow weary—for truth is at stake in every arena, and eternal destinies hang in the balance.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

In the end, everything is showbiz.

Things of quality have no fear of time.

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.

There are only 3 things in the universe: the known-knowns, the known-unknowns, and the unknown-unknowns. What we know, what we don't know, and what we don't know we don't know.

How did it get so late so soon?

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?

Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

If true confessions are written with tears, then my tears would drown the world, as the fire in my soul would reduce it to ashes.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

Knowledge is power.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

The only thing that prevents success in the future is skepticism in the present.

A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

The bigger the better; in everything.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke; that fact alone would invalidate any book.

It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up til now has consisted of—namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography.

Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer's night.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself, how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Beauty will save the world.

Every man is not only responsible for what he does but what everyone else does.

If we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Shower upon him every earthly blessing, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

Everyone gets a vote, even the people of the past, we call that tradition.

Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist, fairy tales tell children the dragons can be defeated.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembered that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Better late than never.

Time and tide wait for no man.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

It is only through staking one's life that freedom is won.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

It's not about winning or losing, but how you play the game.

I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves; self-discipline with all of them came first.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

The measure of a society is how well it takes care of its weakest members.

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

Society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

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

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To every action, there is always an opposite and equal reaction.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Not all those who wander are lost.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

Left to our own devices, we will remake the entire world in our own image.

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

In choosing for myself I choose for all men.

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of legislation.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we help them become what they can be.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

A cat may look at a king.

A man may well bring a horse to water, but he cannot make him drink.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

The wonderful thing about a book is that once you close it, it's yours forever.

I don't want the best for you. I want the best for what wants the best for you, because you don't know what you want. I'm not on the side of you that's aiming towards your defeat. I'm on the side that's struggling towards the light. And that's the definition of love.

If you don't believe in God then you believe in nothing, and religious people will keep their gods, while you keep your nothing.

If you fulfill your obligations every day, you don't have to worry about the future.

Nihilism means that there is no meaning to anything, but the opposite is just as true, that there is meaning to everything.

The line between order and chaos is where you will find the most meaning.

It is a waste to ask, 'What is the meaning of life?' when you are the answer.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

You are the hero of your own story.

No matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

And she was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.

The world belongs to those who let go.

There are 3 types of leaders in this world: the leader that's loved; the leader that's hated; and the leader that people barely know he exists. When the work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to have it make some difference, that you have lived and lived well.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun. Yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

The hero of my tale—whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will forever be beautiful—is truth.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled.

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

No man is a hero to his debtors.

All religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

Just when everything seems lost; one has knocked on all doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years—and it opens.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

The only possible paradises are those we have lost.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess new eyes; to behold the universe through the eyes of another—of a hundred others—to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

Unlike the earth, the sea is not separated from the sky; it radiates under the sun and seems to die with it every evening. And when the sun has vanished, the sea keeps longing for it, keeps preserving a bit of its luminous reminiscence in the face of the uniformly somber earth.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

The best revenge is to not be like your enemy.

The impediment to action advances action; what stands in the way becomes the way.

In the spring, at the end of the day, one should smell like dirt.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Even in the future, the story begins with once upon a time.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.

If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things.

The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

If you cannot decide, the answer is no.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

How is it that we have so much information, but know so little?

Propaganda system works because it recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies.

Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Life imitates art.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

To define is to limit.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Even though I'm no better than a beast, don't I, too, have a right to live?

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

The world is changed by your example. Not your opinion.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Everything will leave us only after it has taught us the necessary lessons.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Man is the measure of all things.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Don't be sorry, be different.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

Truth serves life.

All the world loves a lover.

People's opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I think; therefore I am.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Science is the poetry of reality.

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Less is more.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.

Always say less than necessary.

You have a responsibility to contribute to the culture and times you live in.

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

If a thing is not diminished by being shared, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.

We manage to never really connect with the present moment and find fulfillment there, because we are continually hoping to become happy in the future. And the future never arrives.

Every man's work is always a portrait of himself.

Even while they teach, men learn.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

The problem for us is not whether our desires are satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.

And in that moment I swear we were infinite.

Books are portable magic.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Put things back into the stream of history as much as you can.

It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

Do I dare disturb the universe?

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve. Nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself.

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at where we started and know the place for the first time.

What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Footsteps echo in the memory. Down the passage which we did not take. Towards the door we never opened. Into the rose-garden.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

He who has no sin cast the first stone.

Love your enemies.

The kingdom of God is within you.

The truth will set you free.

Attachment is the root of suffering.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Remember me. I will remember you.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Ignorance is bliss.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

A quote a day, keeps all troubles away.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Compassion is the idea that hell may need people like you.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Someone once told me the definition of hell: the last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing—the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers in Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer on his lips.

Fortune favors the bold.

Love conquers all.

The noblest motive is the public good.

Happiness is the simplest and most ordinary thing in life, not the lofty words like in novels, literature or poems.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, only in being superior to your former self.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

What is poetry? To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

There is no such thing as absolute truth, only what is true enough, to proceed.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

What's new isn't true, what's true isn't new.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.