When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

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

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

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.