We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Live simply so others may simply live.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

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

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.

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

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

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

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.