On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

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

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

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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

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.

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.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

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

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