When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.