The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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

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

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

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Life must be lived as play.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.