Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I am not young enough to know everything.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

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

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

The future is the shape of things to come.