The future is the shape of things to come.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Where there is love there is life.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.