life

"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

"I like flaws. I think they make things interesting."

"It's better to burn out than to fade away."

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."

"If you were to ask me the best time of day to fall in love, I'd say, "Now."But you'd also have to remember to factor in the fact that my watch is eleven minutes fast."

"Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen."

"You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones"

"The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts."

"I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life."

"In a time of destruction, create something."

"Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you."

"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."

"It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."

"Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever."