Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.