Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

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

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The way to know life is to love many things.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.