Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

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.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

See--two who dreamed that dream, and you were one.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.

I asked for your heart and you gave me a stone.

Revenge is never the answer

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.