If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that.
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
The object of war is to survive it.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.
