Kiki Ebsen

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.