I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.