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

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Life must be lived as play.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Any place I hang my head is home.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

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

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

There's place and means for every man alive.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.