Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.