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

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!

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

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

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

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

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.