The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore, I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.

In the field of ideas not involving productive activities it is easier to distinguish the division between material and spiritual necessity. For a long time man has been trying to free himself from alienation through culture and art. While he dies every day during the eight or more hours that he sells his labour, he comes to life afterwards in his spiritual activities. But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness; it is as a solitary individual that he seeks communion with his environment.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

One must endure without losing tenderness.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Action may not always bring happiness...but there is no happiness without action.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. March 10, 1795

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Where there is life, there is hope. HKUST conference (2006-06-15)

Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you’re happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fulfillment... but it can distract you from what is really important.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity...the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.