Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

You know the doubts. You are good enough. You are important. You are worthy. You are kind. You are all you need to be. You are love.

Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up.

Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole

Don't let what other people say disturb your mind. Be happy.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

There is nothing to say because I know everything about him. I raised him. I know what's a charade, and I know what's not a charade. I'll leave it at that.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.