Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

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.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

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

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