We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

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

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Life should be great rather than long.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.