Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

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

love the life you live.live the life you love.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour