If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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

Time is the best killer.

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.