To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.