"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

"make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough"

"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."

"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats."

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."

"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."