There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

All of us are products of our childhood.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

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

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

My art and profession is to live.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.