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

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Any place I hang my head is home.

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

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.