Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

Raise your love, raise it high. Don't let the world and its circumstances make you hate.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?

Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think