In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.