The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

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.

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

Friendship, " said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

Knowledge can protect you much better than a strong castle!