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.

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

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

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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

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

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

The way to know life is to love many things.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

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

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

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.