Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

There's place and means for every man alive.

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

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

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

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

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

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