Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

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

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

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

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Pain don't hurt.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.