Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill.
Nothing can come of nothing. There is no room in my world for nothing.
Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.
When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.
The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.
I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.
When you're young, you long for things that don't exist; and when you're old, you're sad because you never found them.
A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.
Happiness: the feeling of being alive.
I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.
The last goose in the column is flying just as high.
Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.
Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.
To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.
The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.
Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story.
In a godless universe, all we have is each other.
Where the signposts end, the trail begins.
Everybody calls me "Marty." I never know what to call myself.
The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.