Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

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

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

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

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.