Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

The future is the shape of things to come.

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

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

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.