Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
Life should be great rather than long.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.