I am not young enough to know everything.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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

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

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

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.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

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.

Nature is not human-hearted.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed