The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

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

We all owe death a life.

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

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Life must be lived as play.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn