The way to know life is to love many things.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

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

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.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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