Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Live to the point of tears.

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.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.