I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

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.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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

There's place and means for every man alive.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.