Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
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.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.