Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

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

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

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 used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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