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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

I am not young enough to know everything.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

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.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.