My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Pain don't hurt.

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

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

The less you know, the more you believe.