“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

“I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.”

“You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”

“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.”

“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”