Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

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

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

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.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

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

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

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.