Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

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

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Life should be great rather than long.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.