Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.