Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
We think too much and feel too little.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
