The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.