The future starts today, not tomorrow.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

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

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

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

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

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

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

We think too much and feel too little.