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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

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.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

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

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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.

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.