There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
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.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.