The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Live simply so others may simply live.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

It takes a long time to grow young.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...