I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

The way to know life is to love many things.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

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

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.