Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
My art and profession is to live.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
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 universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
The future is the shape of things to come.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
