In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

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

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

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.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

My art and profession is to live.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.