The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

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.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

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

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

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

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

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.