Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.