Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

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.

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Certain signs precede certain events.

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.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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