Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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
