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.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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

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

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

In the end, everything is a gag.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Time is the best killer.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.