Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
A life not lived for others is not a life.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
