One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

In the end, everything is a gag.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

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

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

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.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.