If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.