The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Time is the best killer.

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

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.