I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.