A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.