Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

I am not young enough to know everything.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Where there is love there is life.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

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

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Any place I hang my head is home.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.