Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
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
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.