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

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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

In the end, everything is a gag.

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

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

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

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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