Courage is a kind of salvation.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.