Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

We know death; it’s life we don’t know.

Art is the truth of the imagination.

Obsession is more valuable to an artist than knowledge.

Beauty is the desire for beauty.

Some canaries love their cages, they even call them home.

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.

Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus.

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.

Words are the great temptation.

Time is the school we learn in.

We need movement, activity, as much as air and water.

We suffer more from choice than from necessity.

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.

Man: an irrational being who imagines himself to be a rational one.

It is possible to know all the facts and still know nothing.

Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself.

There are no rules in love except to love.

All extreme opinions consume themselves.

Don’t stare out the window; run through the fields.

One of the first conditions of happiness is the ability to take pleasure in other people’s happiness.

If the light’s not in you, you’re in the dark.

I don’t believe in the search. I believe in happiness now.

The brightest stars don’t necessarily give the most light.

Sex is natural, but enjoying it’s an art.

Even more than dreams our lies reveal our secret wishes.

Never say yes to anything you can’t say no to.

We are changed by the things we try to change.

Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas

The fire alarm is not the fire.

If you can abuse your power you have too much.

Words could never satisfy me, but life satisfies me.

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

Our sins are sins of language.

All lovers meet and love by chance.

It’s the children who never played with fire that get burnt.

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.

Life and love are never what you think they are.

The worst abuse of freedom is to deny that it exists.

If loving comes easy, nothing else seems hard.

An echo has no voice of its own.

Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.

The happy-go-lucky have the best luck.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

Emotion is the poetry of life.

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.