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

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The less you know, the more you believe.

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

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

The future is the shape of things to come.