Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

love the life you live.live the life you love.