I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
It takes a long time to grow young.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
History is the devil's scripture.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.