The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

We all owe death a life.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

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

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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