Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.