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.

There's place and means for every man alive.

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.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

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

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

History is the devil's scripture.

Life must be lived as play.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Life should be great rather than long.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.