Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

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

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

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

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.