Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.