In the end, everything is a gag.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

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.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

We think too much and feel too little.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

We all owe death a life.

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.'

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.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.