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

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

We all owe death a life.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

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

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

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

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.