The meaning of life is that it ends

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.

I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!

He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.