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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

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

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.