As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

No garden is without its weeds.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.