Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

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.

Life should be great rather than long.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

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

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.