Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Nature is not human-hearted.
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
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
