Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

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

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

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

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Life should be great rather than long.

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

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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.

Nature is not human-hearted.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.