Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

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.

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.

Life should be great rather than long.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.