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

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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

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

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

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

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Live simply so others may simply live.