Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
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.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
