Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Any place I hang my head is home.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

Live simply so others may simply live.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.