Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

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.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.