Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

I can, therefore I am.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in - Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

You can have whatever you want, as long as you don't need it.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.