A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

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

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Where there is love there is life.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.