The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
The future is the shape of things to come.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.