Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.

Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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

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

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven read more

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as read more

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.

A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.