It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Life must be lived as play.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

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

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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